The release of Pentium 4-M mobile processors will definitely introduce significant corrections to the notebook market affairs. So, we think it would be necessary to pay attention to the Intel plans for releasing new mobile CPUs, especially due to the fact that in the nearest year some extremely interesting events will take place.

The next key date for the Pentium 4-M series after March, 4 will be April, 22. This day will enrich the processors family now including only two models with 1.6 and 1.7 GHz frequencies, with three new Pentium 4-M with frequencies of 1.4, 1.5 and 1.8 GHz. Those innovations will be priced at $198, $268 and $637 respectively. But those prices will be kept for a short time only. By May, 26 the price for all Pentium 4-M processors will be heavily lowered: it’s enough to say that 1.8 GHz model price will fall by up to 50%.

Intel is going to announce the next model of Pentium 4-M with 1.9 GHz clock frequency by the third quarter. Its price at the moment of release will comprise $637. The fourth quarter will lead the family to the barrier of 2 GHz, and the beginning of 2003 will overstep it.

Then, an absolutely new processor will be presented in the first quarter of 2003, which is by now known under code name Banias. It will have higher frequencies because its heat dissipation will be 10 W less than one of the senior Pentium 4-M models which TDP (Thermal Design Power) will reach 35 W to the and of this year.

Up to the first quarter of 2003 the only chipsets to support Pentium 4-M will remain i845MP and i845MZ which have no embedded graphics core. The first mobile integrated logic set for those CPUs is planned only for the beginning of 2003. This chipset will be Montara-GML, the details are still unknown.

There will be no less interesting situation at the market of more cheap processors: mobile Celeron with 1.33 GHz frequency which is going to be announced on April, 22 too will be almost the last Celeron processor using the Tualatin-256 core intended for powerful notebooks. And then, like in the desktop computers sector, Celeron is going to migrate to Pentium 4 architecture. Though, in contrast to its desktop brothers, mobile Celeron CPUs will use the Northwood core from the beginning. The first Celeron CPUs using this core will have frequencies of 1.4 and 1.5 GHz and will be announced in the fourth quarter of 2002, and in the first quarter of 2003 Intel is going to announce one more model of such Celeron with 1.6 GHz frequency. In the beginning of 2003 there will be really the last Celeron (Tualatin-256) produced with the frequency of 1.4 GHz.

As for the LV and ULV series, it is known that the frequencies will grow as follows. Low Voltage Mobile Intel Pentium III Processor – M: 933 MHz – Q2, 1 GHz – Q4. Low Voltage Mobile Intel Celeron Processor: 733 MHz – Q2, 800 MHz – Q4, 866 MHz – Q1’03. Ultra Low Voltage Mobile Intel Pentium III Processor – M: 800 MHz – Q2, 866 MHz – Q4, 933 MHz - Q1’03. Ultra Low Voltage Mobile Intel Celeron Processor: 667 MHz – Q2, 733 MHz – Q4, 800 MHz - Q1’03.